The non-profit organization dotMeow wants to apply for its own gTLD with ICANN. To finance this, the foundation has launched ...

Lawmakers are calling for hearings, consumer groups are up in arms, and directors are attacking each other in increasingly nasty ways. Sounds like deja vu for the Internet Corporation for Assigned ...

Established in 1998 by the U.S. Department of Commerce, ICANN's enduring mission has been to ensure the stable and secure operation of the Internet's unique identifier systems including the Domain ...

Administrative functions of the world's web traffic have been officially transferred out of US jurisdiction last October, but the non-profit organisation overseeing its operations remains bound by ...

Lawmakers are calling for hearings, consumer groups are up in arms, and directors are attacking each other in increasingly nasty ways. Sounds like deja vu for the Internet Corporation for Assigned ...

That footloose band of happy wanderers, the globe-hopping ICANN board of directors, is back from their latest meeting, this time from Shanghai, China. Say what you will about the Internet Corporation ...

Another step along the long road of ICANN expanding the number of sanctioned top-level web domain names, so that TLDs such as .pepsi, .food and .app can join the usual suspects of .com, .org, .net and ...

A 30-page Report by the 12-member Emoji Study Group (ESG) of ICANN’s Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (CCNSO) has reiterated a number of problematic issues that were highlighted in a ...

ICANN employees have fallen victim to a suspected spear phishing cyberattack that began in late November 2014, the group confirmed in a blog post. The social engineering attack mimicked emails that ...

The internet is about to get even more confusing for old people. ICANN has been working on offering generic top-level-domains for about six years now, and today sees another step in that direction.